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THE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE: PHONOLOGY, SEMANTICS, GRAMMAR, AND PRAGMATICS
 
THEORIES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
     The Learning Theory View
     The Nativist View
     The Interactionist View
 
THE ANTECEDENTS OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
     Not by Word Alone: Preverbal Communication
     Early Language Comprehension
     Babbling and Other Early Sounds
 
SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT: THE POWER OF WORDS
     How Children Acquire Words
     What Kinds of Words Do Children Learn First?
     Errors in Early Word Use
 
THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR: FROM WORDS TO SENTENCES
     Can One Word Express a Complete Thought?
     Two-Word Sentences
     Learning the Rules
     Approaching Formal Grammar
     How Children Make Sense of What They Hear
 
LEARNING THE SOCIAL AND CREATIVE USES OF LANGUAGE
     The Rules of Pragmatics
     Learning to Adjust Speech to Audience
     Learning to Listen Critically
     The Use of Figurative Language
 
METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS: KNOWING ABOUT LANGUAGE
 
BILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
 
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